Improved belt-joint



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" dem @gaat BERNARD `PARD WALKER, OF vVOLVE RHA MPTON, ENGLAND.

. 1 Letter-.t Patent No. 89,820, dated .Ma/y 4, 1869. i

MPRO'VED BELT-JOINT,

"The Sehedule referred to in these Letztere Patent and making part of the same.

Beit known that I, BERNARD Pusan WALKER, of Wolverhampton, Stafford county, England,l1ave invented an Improvement in Belt-Fasteniugs; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact descriptionlof the same.

i My invention consists' of certain plates, applied to the adjacent ends of a belt, as fully described hereafter.

`so as to secure them firmly together without overlap- .ping them.

In orderto enable othersI skilled in the artto make and use myiuventiou, I will now proceed to describe the same, reference being had toA the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specication, and in whichf- Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent a modification of the usual hinge-joint Figure 5, the 'ordiuarybinge-joint; and Figures 4,6, and 7, 'my improvement.

The ordinary hinge-joints for securing the ends of belts together, are objectionable, from the yfact that they generally depend'for their security on a single.

coupling-pin, which is soon worn by the abrasion of the` parts which `it connects, `and becomes loose, and displaced or broken.

I avoid this difficulty byconneeting two ends of the strap which are in contact, but do not overlap, by thin flexible metal plates, B B', g. 7, extending'over both ends of the strap, and secured to the same by rivets, each of the lower plates .being directly below one of the upper ones, so that both shall be secured by the same rivets to the strap and to each other, thus rmly clamping the strap between them.

It will be seen, that in the above-described device,

there are uo parts'which can become loosened or worn by abrasion, so that the coupling is more reliable than those formed iu the ordinary' manner, while it can be extended or diminished to any Width by merely increasing or reducing the number of plates. f l

I claim as my invention, and desire toj secure by Letters Patent- J oiniug the ends of driving-bands by means of vat,4 i

thin metal plates, between which the euds of the band` or strap are placed, and secured 4by rivets or Yscrews passing-through'the two plates, and through the enclosed leather, or other material of which the baud or strap is formed, as hercinbefore described,V

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribiugwitmesses. l

I y BERNARD PEARD WALKER. Witnesses: y i v JOHN RICHARDS, of trm/ngham W. BARNEs, of Be'frm/inghmn. 

